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ESPN: Burk plans to protest new NHL ad campaign
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| 9/23/05
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Posted on 09/23/2005 1:24:53 PM PDT by rwilson99
The NHL's new advertising campaign is getting attention, but not the kind it was likely hoping for.
According to a report from The Canadian Press, Martha Burk, the chair of the National Council of Women's Organizations, said she intends to write letters of protest to the NHL and NBC over the NHL's new ad campaign, which is set to begin next week.
The first spot, titled "It's Time," shows a player (an actor, not an NHL player) in a locker room, surrounded by candles and accompanied by a woman who ceremoniously helps him don his hockey garb. The ads feature quotes from Sun Tzu's "The Art of War" along with dramatic camera work and music reminiscent of the film "Braveheart."
Burk told The Canadian Press that the ad is "offensive on many levels."
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TOPICS: Sports
KEYWORDS: ads; freepublicity; hockey; ironmyshirt; marthaburk; nhl
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Free publicity for the best sport on earth. Bring it Martha.
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posted on
09/23/2005 1:24:54 PM PDT
by
rwilson99
To: rwilson99
It's incomprehensible on many levels. Not offensive.
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posted on
09/23/2005 1:25:39 PM PDT
by
HitmanLV
To: rwilson99
sounds like someone needs a life.
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posted on
09/23/2005 1:26:56 PM PDT
by
camle
(keep your mind open and somebody will fill it full of something for you.)
To: rwilson99
Hey Martha, get your bitch ass in the kitchen and make me some pie!
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posted on
09/23/2005 1:27:00 PM PDT
by
Phantom Lord
(Fall on to your knees for the Phantom Lord)
To: Phantom Lord
You wouldn't want to eat it............
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posted on
09/23/2005 1:27:36 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Don't ever forget, Jimmy Carter can run for president AGAIN!.......)
To: rwilson99
Step away Martha, just step away... time for you to shave your underarm hair.
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posted on
09/23/2005 1:28:00 PM PDT
by
A message
(The Democrat party platform is NOT in the mainstream. It is just foolish.)
To: rwilson99
I thought they supported having women in locker rooms? I guess that's only when they make the male football player feel awkward, while he is trying to get changed.
To: Phantom Lord
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posted on
09/23/2005 1:28:24 PM PDT
by
frogjerk
(LIBERALISM - Being miserable for no good reason)
To: rwilson99
Free publicity for the best sport on earth. Bring it Martha.And free publicity for Martha, and it gives the media something to talk about. Win-win-win all the way around.
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posted on
09/23/2005 1:28:29 PM PDT
by
randog
(What the....?!)
To: rwilson99
I'm desperately trying to work up the energy to care, but so far it's just not happening.
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posted on
09/23/2005 1:28:35 PM PDT
by
Moral Hazard
("Now therefore kill every male among the little ones" - Numbers 31:17)
To: rwilson99
This is so freakin' ridiculous.
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posted on
09/23/2005 1:28:55 PM PDT
by
Corporate Law
(<>< Xavier Basketball - Perennial Slayer of #1 Ranked Teams)
To: rwilson99
This is interesting. When Sam Francis was still six feet above the ground, he wrote a column excoriating Terrell Owens and s white actress for a similar commercial. I'd venture to guess that both characters in this NHL (Go Stars!) commercial here are white. So I guess this would have been fine with Francis.
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posted on
09/23/2005 1:29:42 PM PDT
by
rdb3
(NON-conservative, American exceptionalist here.)
To: rwilson99
NHL (you mean they still exist) I thought we were rid of them.
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posted on
09/23/2005 1:29:57 PM PDT
by
dts32041
( Robin Hood, stealing from the government and giving back to tax payer. Where is he today?)
To: rwilson99
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posted on
09/23/2005 1:33:48 PM PDT
by
frogjerk
(LIBERALISM - Being miserable for no good reason)
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To: frogjerk
OMG that picture's killin' me!! HA!
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posted on
09/23/2005 1:39:42 PM PDT
by
To Hell With Poverty
(I don't think I'm half as good as I know I really am.)
To: rwilson99
My give-a damn is busted.
About Martha and Hockey.
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posted on
09/23/2005 1:39:49 PM PDT
by
builder
(I don't want a piece of someone else's pie)
To: rwilson99
Hockey?? I thought they quit playing last year because the players thought the owners were making too much money.
Like the baseball strike, I dont care if I ever see these twits play again.
To: rwilson99
Hey, they stole that scene from that Tom Cruise movie IIRC "The Last Samurai". When's Tom gonna chime in with his opinion. As the late "Badger" Bob Johnson used to say "It's a great day for hockey!"
To: rwilson99
Went to the Masters a couple of years ago and purposely went by to check out Martha's "protest." There weren't even twenty people there. Such a groundswell of support.
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